Storage & Safety

This product contains sodium azide as preservative. Although the amount of sodium azide is very small appropriate care must be taken when handling this product.

General Information

Biological Significance

Bacillus anthracis is a Gram-positive spore-forming, rod-shaped bacterium, with a width of 1-1.2 um and a length of 3-5 um. It can be grown in an ordinary nutrient medium under aerobic or anaerobic conditions. It is the only bacterium known to synthesize a protein capsule (D-glutamate), and the only pathogenic bacterium to carry its own adenylyl cyclase virulence factor (edema factor). The protective antigen is one of three protein components of the bacillus anthracis toxin.